Good Bye FC5

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue May 16 16:45:09 UTC 2006


Gene Heskett wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
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>>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>>>> Can you explain how skype is forced into the artsdsp usage camp?
>>
>>
>>>> Launch as:
>>>> $ artsdsp skype
>>
>>
>>> That seemed to take even longer to run skype, around a minute, but 
>>> when I clicked on connect to the echo123 test facility I got this:
>>> [root at diablo skype]# artsdsp /usr/share/skype/skype
>>> *** glibc detected *** /usr/share/skype/skype: free(): invalid 
>>> pointer: 0xb593b088 ***
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Whats next?
>>
>>
>> You could try
>> export GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW=1
>> to see if that helps.
>>
> It didn't make any real difference that I could tell:
> [root at diablo skype]# export GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW=1
> [root at diablo skype]# artsdsp /usr/share/skype/skype
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/share/skype/skype: double free or corruption 
> (out): 0x093e6bd8 ***

OK, double free is avoidable too (but it's really a skype bug):
export MALLOC_CHECK=0

-- Rex




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